Space Question about water

Question

If you take water into space and release it in space what would happen to the water? Would it just evaporate? I know that there is oxygen in water but there is no oxygen in space. What would happen?

Answer 1

It just floats in a spherical shape.

or freeze

or evaporate

depending on where.

Answer 2

In the vacuum of space, its own internal heat would cause it to boil away instantly and then the diffusing molecules would eventually lose energy and freeze.  [Even on Earth you can make water boil without adding heat simply by removing air pressure from it (high school science experiment).  There is absolutely no air pressure in space.]

Inside the space shuttle or the space station, where there is an artificial atmosphere, the air pressure keeps it from boiling and it will stay together as a bubble, floating around...

Answer 3

It would immediately evaporate, until the heat of vaporization caused the remaining mass to freeze, then it would continue to sublime until gone.  This would probably be somewhat explosive, giving lots of little droplets and ice crystals.    The vapor pressure of the water is always above zero, which is essentially the pressure in "the vacuum of space".   There is oxygen in water, but it's part of the water, it's not released as oxygen at all.  There's no oxygen, or anything else in space.   So anything with a vapor pressure will evaporate.    

(If you get technical about it, there IS oxygen, hydrogen, water, nitrogen, carbon...etc. in space.  Just in such very low amounts that for the purpose of this question, there is none.)

Answer 4

i think it depends on how far away from the sun it would be...

the closer it is it would evaporate

the farther away it would freeze

and i guess it would just flow in space otherwise..

a Goldilocksaffect i would say...

good question...lol

Answer 5

from what i have seen on TV/Youtube it just floats like a bubble

Answer 6

it would just float like space junk. Won't evaporate or mix.

Answer 7

this question is rather shallow and pedantic

Answer 8

it would boil because there is no pressure to keep it in liquid form

Answer 9

it would just dissipate into a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen atoms due to the lack of pressure. there IS matter in space, including O and H, just not enough for us to breathe. space is not a true vacuum.

Answer 10

If you released it in the space shuttle, it would form a sphere of water. The air inside the shuttle puts pressure on the water, keeping it from falling apart into tiny water droplets.

If you released it in open space (a vacuum [aka, no pressure]), it would vaporize, or become very tiny drops of water. Eventually it would freeze. It wouldn't freeze immediately because the only way for water to get rid of its energy (heat) is to radiate it away into space, which is a fairly slow process.